FCC
RELEASES NEW DAC RATE -- $.494
The FCC today released
its Report and Order in WC Docket 03-225, the dial around rate
proceeding.
The Commission's
decision was unanimous and appears well reasoned. The decision
tracks closely to the positions, analysis and data provided in the record by
APCC and the RBOC Coalition, with the Commission finding in virtually all
circumstances the arguments made by the objecting carriers to be
unpersuasive
The Report and Order
specifies that the rate will be effective thirty days after publication in
the Federal Register, which we would expect to happen shortly thereby
allowing the rate to become effective sometime in September 2004.
The Report and Order is
available on the FCC's web site, www.fcc.gov.